This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …

Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the … the total number of children working. Our results survive a variety of robustness checks and potential explanations for …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … outcome is also reflected in their higher household consumption expenditure. Overall, the effects vary within each minority … group by education, gender, and geographical location. …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …

earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both …